Crimsonorblue22 said:
@tundrahok thx! I hardly ever give up!
I was shocked when you did and thought about replying ("No! NOT YOU!") , but my wife gave me a cupcake to cheer me up and that distracted me.
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Kcmatt7 said:
BShark said:
Switched to the lucky ku shirt just before the 4th quarter. :eyes:
I switched seats
I went to the bathroom....!
@kjayhawks "It’s pretty cool that in my life time now KU, Royals and the chiefs all have championships."
We oldsters have lived long enough for 2 championships for each!
@Kubie Might be in the metatarsal.
@BeddieKU23 Kid is literally hungry for victory.
@SouthernHawk Where in SC are you, and which race? There is only one I know of where any vote might make a difference: Cunningham vs whoever is designated by the GOP to reclaim that seat.
Although we live 100 feet from Columbia, where Clyburn will win until fossilized, we are in the gerrymandered part of Richland and Wilson might as well be unopposed. The most interesting race for us is usually county council.
@approxinfinity I was able to create one, then deleted it.
Great job as always!
@approxinfinity Tried to create a new topic.
Same answer as before. "Category does not exist" Sorry!
@bskeet Michigan State in the same category if the only test is national championships. 2 in the last 41 years, and only 1 despite 7 F4s since 1998. 10 conference reg season or tourn championships in that time. For those who are bitter about lost opportunities, they have been more disappointing since they got closer more times.
Jaylen Fisher's repeated injuries certainly hurt TCU's development. He had 35 games his freshman year and showed great potential but injuries held him to 17 and 9 games soph and jr years. (He was averaging 44% -- 30 of 68 -- on 3pt shots jr year, and Assists/TOs ratio was 4.0. We never had to face him that year, 2018-19.)
When you plan your recruiting around your highest-level recruit ever (8th ranked PG), and he can't finish two out of 3 seasons, it can leave you struggling which can also reduce your program's visibility.
He has transferred to Grand Canyon, incidentally, but is apparently sitting out this season. I cannot tell for sure. He applied for a transfer waiver (he was named WAC newcomer OTY before the season!), but it was denied and according to posts on a WAC forum he hasn't been at games and may have left. Then again, a January 7 ESPN list of transfers eligibles for next year has him listed.
Sad story altogether. Hope he gets it together.
Marco said:
mayjay said:
This led me to look it up. Very interesting (from Google):
"a member of a religious organization of robbers and assassins in India. Devotees of the goddess Kali, the Thugs waylaid and strangled their victims, usually travelers, in a ritually prescribed manner. They were suppressed by the British in the 1830s."
Lol! How dare you get all technical on us!
Actually, I found it interesting due to what must be thousands of novels written for mass-market publishing and Kindle that are based on secretive cabals and religious assassination squads. Like the Da Vinci Code. I thought these were all "pigments" of writers' "colorful" imaginations!
@approxinfinity He did average 8.7 assists per game in college. No apparent game plan by Lon to incorporate that into any cohesive winning strategy, though. Chances are his pro teammates have made it clear that they want to make buckets too, and did so in a convincing way other Sooners were not allowed to raise because of the coach ceding Trae the key.
@rockchalkwyo Not you at all!
I cannot comprehend for a moment how a competitor striving to be better has anything to do with fans being happy (which HEM falsely calls "satisfied" and disparages as if it meant "complacent").
All I was addressing was whether I have had a wonderful time being a fan over the past 30 years and what a turnaround it was from the dark days after the 1973 Final 4. Somehow that made me the target of a snide dismissal of my dreams as a fan.
Glass 1/4 empty versus 3/4 full.
This led me to look it up. Very interesting (from Google):
"a member of a religious organization of robbers and assassins in India. Devotees of the goddess Kali, the Thugs waylaid and strangled their victims, usually travelers, in a ritually prescribed manner. They were suppressed by the British in the 1830s."
Just to step back a moment...How many of us who attended KU in the 70's would have ever imagined all the anguish and lamentation about a #3 ranked team?
Those of you who started in the 80's and since have no idea the difference that extra 10 years of perspective can make! That is why I never get too disturbed by disappointments or too caught up in expectations. The joy of KU excelling these past 30 years will live as long as I do.
Okay, retrospective is done. Feel free to stress some more.
@jayballer73 This link has (more accurate) NTSB details about the flight and lots more information.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/27/us/calabasas-helicopter-crash-kobe-bryant-monday/index.html ↗
approxinfinity said:
Maybe we can start shooting on our own basket as time expires to shake things up a bit.
We wouldn't have to worry about any going in if end if game tonite is any indication.
BeddieKU23 said:
It's not like we have done this same exact thing here before have we?
Lots of other places, too...
@jayballer73 It's very simple--putting the Kobe thing on at 9 on the west coast makes more sense than starting it during the dinner hour for the largest group of likely interested viewers.
Not everything is based on favoring ACC!
Woodrow said:
Josh got called up today. He averaged 20 , 8, and 4 while in the G League.
Doubly good news: A reason he was called up is that Tripper Allen is injured!
@jayballer73 @rockchalkwyo Maybe he has no interest in doing a graduate school year. He has apparently been a fine student and is set to graduate, I believe. NBA is his goal, so 5 years in college may be risking too much.
@jayballer73 Way too soon to draw any conclusions. More info is coming out about the copter waiting @ 15 mins for air traffic, and dialogue with controller telling pilot too low, followed by climb from 1200 to 2000 ft, then crash at 1700 at 160 mph.
Stall from too steep a climb at a high speed in really humid air? May be a possibility. Interesting article here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retreating_blade_stall#Causes_of_retreating_blade_stall ↗
I am not an aeronautical engineer so this is just tossing around some theories. Don't beat me if I got something wrong!
EDIT: Corrected info below from NTSB.
@Woodrow That last ridiculous drive by Moretti reminded me of 2013 vs Michigan with EJ's wacky drive way out to the right of the lane followed by the desperate heave out to 24-ft-from-the-rim Tharpe.
@rockchalkwyo Why, you little...
Just kidding! I hope someone knows the answer because I have been wondering this, too.
Retrospective of Kobe's final game is bumping KU game to ESPN2.
The game will now be on ESPN2 so they can show a retrospective of Kobe's final game. Can you edit the title, @wrwlumpy ?
@bcjayhawk You used not only more words, but cooler and officialer words, too!
@jayballer73 I read that police choppers were grounded and that Kobe's got special permission to fly despite the weather.
@HighEliteMajor You assume too much. The only time I got mugged, it was on Belinder Road and 67th in Mission Hills by 2 white guys who went to Rockhurst.
Interestingly, it had racial overtones due to the 'fro I was wearing. They took objection to it.
@benshawks08 Turning the other cheek become more difficult when they go for all four of them!
@BeddieKU23 Dave's went up without playing? So Silvio has a chance to advance big-time over 12 games!
@dylans I had been wondering how that was turning out. There are, unfortunately, people like that everywhere. Small people who think their big impact on everybody reflects their importance when it really opens a window into the yawning chasm that is the hollowness of their souls.
@drgnslayr The coopting of the word "thug" was done by the racists who used it as a code, not by the people who recognized it as it was happening. Many of us have used it innocently throughout our lives, but not resorting to using it because of its inflammatory context is a small price to pay for avoiding misunderstandings.
Here in SC, I have heard defenses of "boy" meaning any black man, and people who claim the n-word can be used by whites in general conversation as a term of affection. And many whites here seem to think it is important to note that someone is black when race has nothing to do with anything in the conversation. (2 weeks ago a retired Army Lt Col I met: "We went to our grandson's basketball game on Saturday. He always gets into the game but doesn't really try to score. They were playing a team of black kids.")
Racism is nowhere near going away. It does tend to be more subtle. But when it is more hidden, is it less dangerous--or more? And I agree hardly anyone wants to be called "racist", but why would they? "By their fruits ye shall know them" goes to character as well as faith.
"Jerk" is a good word. Or for aggressive people, "pugilistic."
Silvio looked all pugilistic at Gordon!
"I use the word thug purposefully and with intention. The meltdown is always entertaining."
Wikepedia: "In internet slang, a troll is a person who starts quarrels or upsets people on the Internet to distract and sow discord by posting inflammatory and digressive, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog) with the intent of provoking readers into displaying emotional responses and normalizing tangential discussion, whether for the troll's amusement or a specific gain."
Astounding. I have never seen anyone admit being one so aptly! I wonder if the entry can be edited to provide a link to that admission.
Ditto! Part of a path to a solution will be realizing that there are people of good will on both sides of both issues.
In other words, respecting other people without resorting to generalizations or allegations of evil intent.
cragarhawk said:
I also have some ocean front property in central ks if any are in the buying mood
Just going by the names I recognize as ocean-front, I am guessing your property is in Havana, Tampa, or Long Island, Kansas? Maybe Jamestown, Kansas if you are stretching it.
How much?
It can be BOTH unnecessary AND legitimate. Think for a moment what would have happened if Silvio's aim on the block had been off by 6 inches and he totally creamed the guy trying to shoot, or if he had fallen and gotten injured. How many of us would say that result would have been worth the risk?
Legitimate because he accomplished it without injury to either player. I called my wife in to watch it on replay--we were laughing!--but then on the 2nd playing the aftermath became apparent.
Unnecessary because letting it go would have had no effect.
Always happy to be told what I agree to even if I don't!
DanR said:
We had the exact same angle but were in literally the very top row.
Weren't the halftime girls (preteen baton twirlers?) really amazing?
Did you go to the KU rally at Calhoun's On the River?
We might have been 20 ft away from each other all day!
@BeddieKU23 There seem to be from 14 to 29 qualifiers in the E Conf for the PG position--it varies based on what is being ranked.
Here are the rankings I just calculated from that ESPN link I included (all based on per game except where %age).
ast....3rd of 29
3 pt fg made...1st of 29
3 pt fg %....8th of 19
reb...9th of 29
stl....12th of 29
fta....7th of 29
ftm...7th of 29
ft%...14th of 18
fga...6th of 29
fgm...11th of 29
fg%...17th of 17
TO....26th of 29
Top 10 is misleading in selecting pgs for All Star slots when the total qualifying in any stat is no more than 29. If we look at top 20% of point guards in the E conference, which would fill 6 positions on the E team (too many anyway, but to allow for injuries and subs), he would have only 2 categories where he is in the top 20% in that category.
And dead last in fg percentage, and bottom 11% in TOs.
My brother moved to Maryville (s of Knoxville a few miles) and he says he has never met nicer people in his life.
Our experience at a KU game at UTenn was wonderful. We were #1 and lost. People celebrating after the game actually apologized and sympathized when they saw our KU gear. Everyone we met couldn't have been friendlier.
Perception is everything. I went to Ann Arbor for law school, and found the people were as cold as the weather compared to KC and KU. I heard students from NY and NC talking about how they had never been in a friendlier place.
@BeddieKU23 I'd put him in the 3 pt contest, and he certainly deserves most improved player, but look at his other stats. Way, way, way down most lists. I love him, but he has a long way to go to be top 30 overall.
You can sort each column, and expand to all 267 or however many qualifiers there are.
https://www.espn.com/nba/stats/player/_/table/offensive/sort/avgPoints/dir/desc ↗
@Crimsonorblue22 The tweet. Some people use aLtErNaTiNg cals to signal sarcasm. Drives me nuts
@Big-Clyde52 "Without [Gordon's] stupid decision the players are lining up and shaking hands."
Just one thing: When any athlete is standing over an opponent on the ground after a violent blocked shot and taunting him, exactly how likely is it that something physical will not happen?
Silvio made it almost inevitable. So how does that segue to shaking hands?